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Legal challenges to police misconduct often do their best to deny claims that police officers are “experts” in the field. But what if they are, and that’s part of the problem?
On June 21, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed several claims in the overlapping suits filed by Black Lives Matter, the American Civil Liberties Union and others against former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General William Barr and a number of federal and local officers and agencies for the forcible clearing of protestors in Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020.
Lawfare is compiling a selection of executive actions taken by President Biden to implement his administration’s policies on policing and criminal justice.
A new report shows the widespread use by law enforcement of tools that circumvent encryption barriers.
The protest movement by young Nigerians seems likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
These procedures show promise as a complement to judicial oversight, but cities could do more to stop vendors from shielding surveillance tools from scrutiny.
There are a few answers, but a lot more questions.
Most governments consider tear gas a weapon of war yet routinely use it against their own populations during periods of internal unrest. The history is complicated.